Saturday, October 31, 2009 DOHA: Defending champion Venus Williams reached the semi-finals of the WTA hampionships without hitting a ball on Friday as organisers avoided potential embarrassment over the event's scoring system.Williams reached the last four - along with Jelena Jankovic and Caroline Wozniacki - despite losing two of her three round-robin group matches.The American was assured of joining sister Serena in the semi-finals when Svetlana Kuznetsova defeated Elena Dementieva 6-3, 6-2 in the concluding Maroon Group match.On Saturday, Serena will face Wozniacki while Venus tackles Jankovic for places in the final of the 4.55 million dollar tournament.Under a complicated qualifying system, Venus pipped Dementieva for a last four place despite both players having a win apiece and with the Russian having defeated the American when they met on Tuesday.Venus went through having won more sets.In the White Group, Jankovic also made the last four, comfortably defeating US Open runn...
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